Peer Evaluation / Feedback for EDC 102 Context Statement

Author: (Person who wrote report.)
Editor: (Person evaluating report.)
Total Score for this Evaluation: _/35 pts

The purpose of the context statement in EDC 102 is to provide each student with an opportunity to demonstrate his or her ability to research a school, its district, and its community in order to better understand its strengths and challenges. Each report should describe their school based solely on evidence that they cite in their Reference section.

As a peer editor, your tasks are:

Read author's report.
Provide positive feedback to help your author be enthusiastic about writing.
Carefully evaluate report by assigning a score for each criterion
provide constructive comments that will help the strengthen the author's report for each category.
Create a link to your evaluation at the end of the report.

Rubric

Introduction = REPLACEWITHSCORE/ 5 pts.

5 - Intro provides an overview of the upcoming analysis, including what school/district/community is being analyzed, what aspects are being analyzed, and who the report is intended to inform.

4 - Intro names the school/district/community and previews the scope of the report, but does not describe who the report is intended to inform.

3 - Intro names the school/district/community but not much else.

2 - Intro fails to name the school, district, and community.

0 - No introduction section is apparent.

Constructive comments about report's introduction:

Organization = REPLACEWITHSCORE / 5 pts.

5 - Report includes an Introduction, a Conclusion, and sections for the School, District, and Community. Within each section, paragraphs logically group the information presented.

4 - Report includes all of the sections mentioned previously, but does not break down information into paragraphs within each section.

3 - Report is missing one of the sections.

2 - Report is missing more than one section.

0 - Report does not include any sections.

Strengths and constructive comments about report's organization:

Mechanics = REPLACEWITHSCORE / 5 pts.

5 - All information in the report is cited using APA styled- citations after the information and in a Reference section at the end of the report.

and

There are extremely few typos and misspelled words in the report.

4 - Most information is cited using APA style.

and/or

There are a noticeable number of typos or misspellings.

3 - Some citations in the References section are not in APA style, e.g. URLs are listed without the title of the website.

and/or

There are many typos, misspellings, or other writing errors.

2 - Most of the report's information is not cited, or APA style was not used.

0 - Report does not include a Reference section.